Colleges Discounted TESOL

Prior to reading each unit’s coursework I would browse through the accompanying worksheet and try completing the questions pertaining to grammar issues. For example, “What is the past perfect tense of the following sentence?” or “Write this sentence in reported speech.” I did this as I was curious as to how good my english actually was. I found that I was able to answer about 95% of these type of questions correctly although I did not understand the underlying reasons and rules for writing the answers in that form and more importantly I would not have been able to explain to anybody else why I had done so. I was pleased that I had a good foundation on which to build on but rather frustrated and annoyed that I knew so little about the mechanics of my native language. The course has given me the knowledge I need to understand why I do what I do when reading and writing english. It has provided me the grammatical terminology and rules for things that I had done instinctively without knowing why. But most importantly it has given me the necessary tools to explain it to others in a manner simple enough to be understood. Away from the mechanics of